Putting together the Iraq occupation case has turned into a double-lose dilemma for American politicians.
This feeling of two defeats and the understanding that America has no way back and no way forward in Iraq made the foreign minister of this country publicly say to the NBC network, “We have paid a heavy price for Iraq and I hope that Iran or any After our departure, another country should not be miscalculated.”
His statements are a passive response to many analysts and politicians in America and Europe who believe that Obama’s announcement that 30,000 American troops will withdraw from Iraq in two months is another big victory for Iran. Hillary Clinton passively says: If Iran ignores our presence in other countries of the region, it has made a mistake in calculation. Of course, Iran will always have influence in Iraq.
The result of America’s 9 years of war and occupation of Iraq has been the death of more than 4,000 soldiers of this country along with more than one thousand billion dollars in costs and the discredit of America along with the overthrow of Saddam as one of Iran’s enemies in the region.
Senator John McCain of the Republican Party said in response to Obama’s forced decision, “This decision will be a great victory for our enemies in the Middle East, especially Iran, a country that is trying to withdraw our forces from Iraq.” America’s decision will open Iran’s hand in the region. We are very worried about the increasing influence of this country.”
The French publication Lopest also wrote in an analysis: The withdrawal of American forces was one of the important demands of the Iranian government, and in fact, the possibility of a military threat against Iran will become weaker.
But the French news agency, in response to Hillary Clinton’s statement, which says: “No one, especially Iran, should miscalculate our exit,” he wrote. The withdrawal of American forces from Iraq is another important victory for Iran. Iran and Iraq, who were enemies before the US occupation of Iraq in 2003 and had gone through a devastating war, now enjoy close relations in various fields. Iran’s cultural influence in Iraq is very deep.
Al-Hayat newspaper also stated that “Obama’s decision is an important strategic victory for America’s enemies in the Middle East, especially Iran”, according to Frederick Kagan, an analyst at the American Enterprise Institute. “America’s withdrawal will throw Iraq into Iran’s arms. This withdrawal will fail the efforts to isolate the Islamic Republic because it creates the ground for the establishment of an Iranian-Iraqi free base.
The American news network “Bloomberg” also believes: The end of the presence of American forces in Iraq is the beginning of the process of measuring the results of the long war, which, in addition to imposing a cost of 800 billion dollars on the American people, took the lives of about five thousand American soldiers. The withdrawal of American forces from Iraq will have serious and profound consequences and is a strategic gift for the Islamic Republic.
